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Wisconsin has the opportunity to be ready in case something happens to the federal protections for people with pre-existing health care needs. Assembly Republicans have worked diligently to make this happen. Unfortunately, health care has become so divisive in our political conversation that state-level protections have yet to become reality.
Scott Walker has told us he’s going to spend the next few years traveling the country and giving speeches on behalf of Trump and, apparently, taking potshots at politicians like Elizabeth Warren who believe in a more equitable system, where government helps all, not just the wealthy. Thankfully, he’ll be delivering that hypocritical message mostly out of the state of Wisconsin.
Data show what people in Kewaunee County and the Central Sands region who live near the industrial-scale Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, already know–their drinking water is contaminated.
Somebody should have told Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, that it’s better to be thought a racist than to open his mouth and remove all doubt.
Maybe the only way out of the now longest-ever partial government shutdown would be for Trump to exercise what he thinks is his power to declare a national emergency.
It may seem to Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly that having been gerrymandered into the minority, it is impossible to soon become the majority. But the impossible in politics is often the inevitable.
It’s increasingly clear that Wisconsin has reduced substantially its relative support for state transportation needs. What is less clear is how or whether the current governor and legislature will respond.
Wildlife columnist Patricia Randolph spotlighted the incredibly cruel practice of organized predator-killing contests throughout the country, including over a dozen right here in Wisconsin.
Echoing a theme from his successful campaign, Gov. Tony Evers called for “putting people first” and bridging partisan divides after being sworn in as Wisconsin’s 46th governor. How optimistic are you that new Evers will get his wish for more bipartisanship at the Capitol?
More than 50 years ago, at a point when the Republican Party of Wisconsin had taken a turn toward extremism that threatened to divide the state along the ugliest and most destructive lines, Bill Kraus and a brave band of political visionaries saved their party and their state.
The partial government shutdown, initiated by Trump, is the longest in U.S. history.
While there are a number of suggestions in the commission’s 16-page document that could be beneficial to education in Wisconsin, it seems that another opportunity for bold reform has been passed up.
The 345-kilovolt line, complete with towers as tall as a 17-story building, would run from Dubuque’s Hickory Creek terminal to the Cardinal substation located near Middleton.
There should be no mistake concerning the importance of allowing the educational process to help students evolve from their hometown views into the expansive world of knowledge and critical thinking that the humanities were designed to foster.
As Wisconsin voters face the first election in 2019 for the open seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, handicap the race between Brian Hagedorn and Lisa Neubauer, both state appeals court justices. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
We may be naive, but we think Evers can work with Republican majorities to advance the liberty movement in Wisconsin.
The cheesehead revolution is well and truly over. Ryan announced plans to exit his position as speaker well before his party lost control of the House. Walker ran, but was capsized by the blue wave. Together, they have joined Priebus in private life.
Undefining America as a nation of immigrants does not honor our values, it abandons them.
Factors such as screaming advertising and belligerency on-air are absent as polls embrace more liberal news outlets, particularly MSNBC which has been growing steadily, from near invisibility 15 years ago to now having the dominant cable news show in recent testing, “The Rachel Maddow Show.”
Health care giant’s market power drives up your medical costs as executives get richer.
Wisconsin has the opportunity to be ready in case something happens to the federal protections for people with pre-existing health care needs. Assembly Republicans have worked diligently to make this happen. Unfortunately, health care has become so divisive in our political conversation that state-level protections have yet to become reality.
Scott Walker has told us he’s going to spend the next few years traveling the country and giving speeches on behalf of Trump and, apparently, taking potshots at politicians like Elizabeth Warren who believe in a more equitable system, where government helps all, not just the wealthy. Thankfully, he’ll be delivering that hypocritical message mostly out of the state of Wisconsin.
Data show what people in Kewaunee County and the Central Sands region who live near the industrial-scale Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, already know–their drinking water is contaminated.
Somebody should have told Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, that it’s better to be thought a racist than to open his mouth and remove all doubt.
Maybe the only way out of the now longest-ever partial government shutdown would be for Trump to exercise what he thinks is his power to declare a national emergency.
It may seem to Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly that having been gerrymandered into the minority, it is impossible to soon become the majority. But the impossible in politics is often the inevitable.
It’s increasingly clear that Wisconsin has reduced substantially its relative support for state transportation needs. What is less clear is how or whether the current governor and legislature will respond.
Wildlife columnist Patricia Randolph spotlighted the incredibly cruel practice of organized predator-killing contests throughout the country, including over a dozen right here in Wisconsin.
Echoing a theme from his successful campaign, Gov. Tony Evers called for “putting people first” and bridging partisan divides after being sworn in as Wisconsin’s 46th governor. How optimistic are you that new Evers will get his wish for more bipartisanship at the Capitol?
More than 50 years ago, at a point when the Republican Party of Wisconsin had taken a turn toward extremism that threatened to divide the state along the ugliest and most destructive lines, Bill Kraus and a brave band of political visionaries saved their party and their state.
The partial government shutdown, initiated by Trump, is the longest in U.S. history.
While there are a number of suggestions in the commission’s 16-page document that could be beneficial to education in Wisconsin, it seems that another opportunity for bold reform has been passed up.
The 345-kilovolt line, complete with towers as tall as a 17-story building, would run from Dubuque’s Hickory Creek terminal to the Cardinal substation located near Middleton.
There should be no mistake concerning the importance of allowing the educational process to help students evolve from their hometown views into the expansive world of knowledge and critical thinking that the humanities were designed to foster.
As Wisconsin voters face the first election in 2019 for the open seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, handicap the race between Brian Hagedorn and Lisa Neubauer, both state appeals court justices. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
We may be naive, but we think Evers can work with Republican majorities to advance the liberty movement in Wisconsin.
The cheesehead revolution is well and truly over. Ryan announced plans to exit his position as speaker well before his party lost control of the House. Walker ran, but was capsized by the blue wave. Together, they have joined Priebus in private life.
Undefining America as a nation of immigrants does not honor our values, it abandons them.
Factors such as screaming advertising and belligerency on-air are absent as polls embrace more liberal news outlets, particularly MSNBC which has been growing steadily, from near invisibility 15 years ago to now having the dominant cable news show in recent testing, “The Rachel Maddow Show.”
Health care giant’s market power drives up your medical costs as executives get richer.
